I was just replying to a thread in the Pit and saw, while writing my post, that the words “Superbowl” and “Favre” appeared with a red, dash underline. As I compose I find that any misspelling and some compound words appear with this too.
I guess we have a nifty little spell checker now. When did this start? Just curious.
I also apologize if this has question has been done, I didn’t see one yet.
Did you just switch to Firefox? Or upgrade to Firefox 2 from 1.5? Because that’s a built in feature in the browser.
I just upgraded my OS for my Mac. With that upgrade, Safari also upgraded. Now I have the hated red underlining too. User names mostly.
This was one reason I hate anything Micro Soft. :mad:
Safari and Firefox are non-Microsoft products.
I know that, Skip. I’m saying Mac has adopted that ugly red underline, telling me it’s smarter than I am. I don’t use spell check for a reason. I spell better, and I know what I’m trying to say.
I’ve tried to find out if this is a new preference, but no luck so far.
Yeah, it’s the Mac OS upgrade. I hadn’t noticed it on any other sites until this morning. That’s really weird.
If you don’t care for the automatic spellcheck in Safari, go to Edit, Spelling, then uncheck “Check spelling as you type” - it’s just about the only thing in Safari that can’t be accessed by some Command-whatever keyboard shortcut.
{{{{gotpasswords}}}} Thank you!
You spell better than a list of correct spellings? lol. I guess by that you mean you use a lot of technical words, internet slang or British/Canadian spellings? I see you’ve got the solution that you were looking for but I thought I’d mention that one of the options when you right-click an “incorrect” word is “Add to dictionary” so anything you deem proper can be added and never red-underlined again, unless you mis-spell “IANAD”.
Sorry, I did not mean to sound arrogant, I just prefer to make my own mistakes.
What I meant was, I know what I want to write, and resent a machine trying to tell me what I really meant.
You’re right, the spell check flags user names, technical words, acronyms and abbreviations and I don’t like that.
It’s the year 2007, and the spell checkers are still trying to tell me that “transgender” is not a word. They’re imbeciles.
You must have missed CarnalK’s post. All you have to do is click “Add to dictionary”. It’ll do just that.
Then you can “transgender” all you wish. 
I simply ignore that which I don’t care about. Sometimes it’s right.
Peace,
mangeorge